The adventures of Baron Munchausen
Gustave Doré's 1867 Cassell, Petter and Galpin edition of The adventures of Baron Munchausen, a comic fantasy of impossible voyages published in London and New York for a general readership. The two pictures are loose, sketchy wood engravings with heavy black silhouettes and pale open backgrounds, one showing a figure in a cloak balancing a cannon on his shoulder above a rocky shore, the other two crowned heads in ornate robes. A designer might take their bold silhouette shapes, caricatured exaggeration and economical hatching for playful editorial illustration.
